WEBVTT - Tiny Houses

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<v Speaker 1>from house stuff works dot com where smart happens. I

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<v Speaker 1>am Marshall Brain with today's question what is a tiny house?

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<v Speaker 1>And how can you build a house for thirty five dollars?

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<v Speaker 1>Houses in the United States have been getting bigger and

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<v Speaker 1>bigger for decades. If you go back to nineteen fifty,

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<v Speaker 1>the average single family home in the United States was

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<v Speaker 1>about a thousand square feet. Today it's more than twice

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<v Speaker 1>that big square feet. The tiny house movement is a

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<v Speaker 1>radical departure from this trend. Houses in this category get

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<v Speaker 1>as small as sixty five square feet more. Typically, they

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<v Speaker 1>fall somewhere in the hundred to two hundred square foot range.

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<v Speaker 1>The idea is to create a very compact space so

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<v Speaker 1>that you can simplify your life and greatly reduce expenses.

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<v Speaker 1>The interior of a tiny house often shares some features

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<v Speaker 1>with boats and r vs. For example, if you're compressing

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<v Speaker 1>a house into a hundred square feet, the kitchen and

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<v Speaker 1>the restroom are going to be very small. Boats and

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<v Speaker 1>r vs work with this same kind of constraint, and

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of times you can find appliances or bathroom

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<v Speaker 1>fixtures from boats and r vs that work well in

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<v Speaker 1>tiny houses. Right now, I'm looking at the floor plan

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<v Speaker 1>for a tiny house called the Popomo. It is eight

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<v Speaker 1>and a half feet wide and twenty ft long, about

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<v Speaker 1>a hundred and seventy square feet. It has four rooms,

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<v Speaker 1>a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, and a great room.

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<v Speaker 1>There's also a coat closet. The great room is five

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<v Speaker 1>by nine or forty five square feet, the bedroom is

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<v Speaker 1>seven by five or thirty five square feet. The bathroom

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<v Speaker 1>is only fifteen square feet two ft wide, and the

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<v Speaker 1>kitchen and the closet take up the rest of the space.

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<v Speaker 1>As tiny houses go, this one is pretty spacious, but

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<v Speaker 1>you can see how compact a tiny house usually is.

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<v Speaker 1>Tiny houses often run a foul with building codes. For example,

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<v Speaker 1>a typical building code might require at least one room

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<v Speaker 1>to be a hundred and twenty square feet and all

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<v Speaker 1>other rooms to be of a certain size. To get

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<v Speaker 1>around these requirements, most tiny houses are built as trailers

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<v Speaker 1>with wheels so they're easy to tow around. But to

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<v Speaker 1>create a towable trailer, there are usually width restrictions. This

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<v Speaker 1>is why most tiny houses are less than nine ft wide.

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<v Speaker 1>Many people who build tiny houses pride themselves on the

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<v Speaker 1>low cost of construction. One video on YouTube shows a

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<v Speaker 1>tiny house complete with trailers and wheels, built for only

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<v Speaker 1>three thousand five dollars. How is this possible? The answer

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<v Speaker 1>is recycling. If you get on Craigslist or free cycle,

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<v Speaker 1>visit demolition projects, and look for building material recycling shops,

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<v Speaker 1>you can find us stuff like lumber, windows, doors, and

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<v Speaker 1>cabinets at very very low prices or even free. These

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<v Speaker 1>materials greatly reduced the cost of a tiny house. For

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